Women
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Top-Grossing Films Showed Slight Gains in Diversity of Lead Actors Last Year, Study Says
In 2021, 41% of movies had a female lead or co-lead, a rebound from 36% in 2020, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study shows
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Oscars 2022: Women Land Just 28% of Nominations in All Categories, a 3-Year Low
Only 65 of the 229 individual Oscar nominations went to women, despite landmark nominations for Jane Campion and others
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When He Went Low She Went High – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Makes a Mark for History (Video)
The congresswoman spoke on behalf of all women who suffer aggressions large and small from men who think they can do so with impunity
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‘All Rise’ Star Simone Missick on Filming Quarantine Episode Using Zoom, FaceTime
WrapWomen LA Blog: ”This process felt like shooting a guerrilla indie film that I starred in, co-produced and ran thirteen other departments for,“ Simone Missick tells WrapWomen
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Producer Effie T. Brown Named CEO of Female-Focused Film Financing Fund Gamechanger
Gamechanger will also expand to help underrepresented communities in TV and digital
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Women in Animated Films Make Up Only 17% of Lead Characters
Female producers and executives in animation exceed those in live action, report from USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative says
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Top-Grossing 2018 Films Had More Female and Racially Diverse Lead Roles, Study Says
Eleven films featured a female lead or co-lead from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group, three times more than in 2017, according to Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study
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Women Snagged Record 28 Percent of This Year’s Oscar Nominations, an All-Time High
Gains came in below-the-line categories, including Best Documentary Feature
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More Than Half of 2019 Sundance Dramatic Competition Films Have Female Directors
Nine of the 16 films have a female director
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NY Times Columnist Admits His Gender Bias: ‘I’m Not Quoting Enough Women’
”Less than 20 percent of the people mentioned in my weekly column have been women,“ says David Leonhardt in his Sunday column
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Is Criticism of Michelle Wolf Sexist? Rachel Bloom Says Yes
”I definitely think she’s getting more criticism because she’s a woman,“ Bloom tells TheWrap
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NY Times Belatedly Publishes Obits of Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Brontë and Other Women It Ignored at the Time
The Times says the project is meant to correct historical bias in the obituary section which overwhelmingly ”chronicled the lives of men“
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Time’s Up, Oscars: Fewest Female Winners Since 2012
Frances McDormand sounds alarm bell in her Best Actress speech — but Academy again falls short
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New BBC Initiative Aims to ‘Sweep Away Any Barriers to Women Progressing’
UK broadcaster wants half of senior management and on-air talent to be female by 2020
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Does CNN Have a Woman Problem? Network Lags Behind Fox News, MSNBC in On-Air Talent
CNN has half as many solo female hosts as its competitors — and none in primetime
